Abstract

Sociolinguistics aspects such as Semantic and Pragmatic affect language user in every situation.
Those two contexts even exist in a proficiency test to become the test foundation. This research
was conducted to identify the semantic and pragmatic contexts in TOEFL test simulation on the
Listening section. The researcher applied a qualitative descriptive approach to this research, and
Document Analysis and the researcher as the instrument. The object of this research was TOP
NO 1 TOEFL SIMULATION published by FORUM TENTOR INDONESIA. The result
reveals that there are several types of semantic and pragmatic context found in the test
simulation. The semantic contexts found in 8 questions from the 30 questions analyzed. The
types of semantic contexts which were found namely; Meaning, Semantic Feature, and
Semantic Roles. Moreover, the semantic type that mostly occurred is Semantic Roles (4
Questions), then followed by Semantic Feature (2 Questions) and Meaning (2 Questions).
However, the Pragmatic context quantities are found more than the semantic context. From the
30 analyzed questions, the Pragmatic contexts found are 40 questions, it happens because one
test item can have more than one type of pragmatic. Also, the Reference type in Pragmatic
occurred in most questions because the narrator on the listening passage uses referencing
(nature of Reference) to make the question. The type of pragmatic context found namely;
Context, Politeness, Reference, and Speech Act. The type of pragmatic context which is mostly
occurred is Reference (25 questions).